View all research projects
Research project

W Powrie 2015 - EPSRC: Track to the Future

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
Connect with William

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor of Railway Noise and Vibration

Research interests

  • Low noise design in railways
  • Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
  • Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems
Connect with Simon

Email: [email protected]

Professor John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Dynamics Group

The group's research covers a range of topics including fundamental theoretical studies, the development of numerical tools and experimental measurement techniques.

Transportation Group

Our research focuses on the interactions between behaviour, infrastructure and operations and how they translate into transport policy and practice.

Research outputs

The shadow effect on the ground surface due to vibration transmission from a railway tunnel
Qiyun Jin, David Thompson, Daniel Lurcock & Evangelos Ntotsios, 2020, Transportation Geotechnics, 23, 1-12
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100335
Type: article
A model for the stochastic prediction of track support stiffness
Louis Le Pen, David Milne, Geoff Watson, John Harkness & William Powrie, 2020, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 234(5), 468-481
DOI: 10.1177/0954409719841800
Type: article
Developing a generalised assessment framework for railway interventions
John Armstrong, Georgios Rempelos, Jingfu wei, John Preston, Simon Blainey, John Easton & clive roberts, 2020, WIT Transactions on Built Environment, 199, 127 - 138
DOI: 10.2495/CR200121
Type: article
Saturation and its effect on the resilient modulus of a pavement formation material
Letisha Blackmore, Christopher R.I. Clayton, William Powrie, Jeffrey A. Priest & Louise Otter, 2020, Géotechnique, 70(4), 292-302
DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.18.P.053
Type: article
A carbon footprint analysis of railway sleepers in the United Kingdom
Georgios Rempelos, Jonathan Preston & Simon Blainey, 2020, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 81
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2020.102285
Type: article